Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] block,fs,mm: IO cgroup tracking for buffered write

From: Justin TerAvest
Date: Wed Mar 23 2011 - 13:21:31 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:52 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:08:49 -0700
> Justin TerAvest <teravest@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> +static inline void page_cgroup_set_blkio_id(struct page_cgroup *pc,
>> +                             unsigned long id)
>> +{
>> +     unsigned long old, new, prev;
>> +
>> +     /* pc->flags isn't lock protected, so we must cmpxchg. */
>> +     WARN_ON(id >= (1UL << PAGE_TRACKING_ID_BITS));
>> +     do {
>> +             new = old = pc->flags;
>> +             new &= (1UL << PAGE_TRACKING_ID_SHIFT) - 1;
>> +             new |= (unsigned long)(id << PAGE_TRACKING_ID_SHIFT);
>> +             prev = cmpxchg(&pc->flags, old, new);
>> +     } while (prev != old);
>
> How to support archs which doesn't have cmpxchg ?
> At least, you need take care of compile error.

Hi Kame,

Is there really no generic cmpxchg()? I thought that was what
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h was for.

Thanks,
Justin

>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>
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